# Geoff Crowther > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoff_Crowther > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Geoff_Crowther.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Crowther > Source revision: 1352150612 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British travel writer (1944–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Geoff Crowther | image = Geoff Crowther (1944–2021).png | birth_date = {{birth date|1944|03|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), England{{efn|name=fn1|''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'' states that Crowther was born in [Todmorden](/source/Todmorden), but the ''[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)'' states that he was born in [Halifax](/source/Halifax%2C_West_Yorkshire).{{r|Times|FT}}}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|04|13|1944|03|15|df=y}} | death_place = [South East Queensland](/source/South_East_Queensland), Australia | alma_mater = [University of Liverpool](/source/University_of_Liverpool) | occupation = Travel writer | organization = [BIT](/source/BIT_(alternative_information_centre)), [Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet) | spouse = {{marriage|Hyung Poon|1982|end=div.}}{{efn|name=fn2|''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'' states that the marriage was dissolved in 1997, but the ''[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)'' states that the marriage ended in 2000.{{r|Times|FT}}}} | children = 1 }} '''Geoff Crowther''' (15 March 1944 – 13 April 2021) was a British travel writer who wrote for [BIT](/source/BIT_(alternative_information_centre)) and [Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet). ==Life== ===Early life=== Crowther was born in [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire){{efn|name=fn1}} on 15 March 1944. His parents worked in a cotton mill.{{r|Times|NYT}} He attended [Calder High School](/source/Calder_High_School), and began hitchhiking around Europe while still a teenager. At the [University of Liverpool](/source/University_of_Liverpool), he studied [biochemistry](/source/biochemistry), and considered staying on to undertake a doctorate, but in the end his desire to travel proved too great.{{r|Times|FT|NYT}} ===BIT and Lonely Planet=== In 1972, he joined the alternative information service [BIT](/source/BIT_(alternative_information_centre)), where he oversaw the production of ''Overland to India and Australia''. The guide impressed [Tony](/source/Tony_Wheeler) and [Maureen](/source/Maureen_Wheeler) Wheeler, and in 1976 they invited him to join [Lonely Planet](/source/Lonely_Planet).{{r|FT|Independent|R4}} ===Personal life=== He met his first wife, Hyung Poon, whilst working on a guidebook in [South Korea](/source/South_Korea). They married in [Seoul](/source/Seoul) in 1982, and their son, Ashley, was born in 1989. After their marriage ended,{{efn|name=fn2}} Crowther had a brief second marriage to a woman he met in [Kenya](/source/Kenya), but this also ended in divorce.{{r|Times|FT}} ===Final years=== In 2005, he sustained a head injury in an accident and moved to a residential care facility.{{r|FT}} He died in [South East Queensland](/source/South_East_Queensland) on 13 April 2021, at the age of seventy-seven, as a result of complications arising from [dementia](/source/dementia).{{r|NYT|Times}} ==Notable guidebooks== *''Africa on the Cheap'' (1977) {{isbn|9780959808087}} *''South America on a Shoestring'' (1980) {{isbn|9780908086085}} *''India: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1981) {{isbn|9780908086238}} *''Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1982) {{isbn|9780908086313}} *''Korea & Taiwan: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1982) {{isbn|9780908086108}} *''Africa on a Shoestring'' (1983) {{isbn|9780908086481}} *''East Africa: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1987) {{isbn|9780864420053}} *''Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1989) {{isbn|9780864420343}} *''Kenya: A Travel Survival Kit'' (1991) {{isbn|9780864421036}} ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{cite web|last=Jenkins|first=Siona|date=14 May 2021|title=Geoff Crowther, guidebook writer, 1944–2021|url=https://www.ft.com/content/5227b4bd-8df8-4372-8483-c2686e485602|website=[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210514231821/https://www.ft.com/content/5227b4bd-8df8-4372-8483-c2686e485602|archive-date=14 May 2021|url-status=live}} {{cite web|last=Calder|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Calder|date=28 April 2021|title=Geoff Crowther: The life of 'the patron saint of travellers in the third world'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/lonely-planet-geoff-crowther-guidebooks-b1838557.html|website=[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430102744/https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/lonely-planet-geoff-crowther-guidebooks-b1838557.html|archive-date=30 April 2021|url-status=live}} {{cite web|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=7 May 2021|title=Geoff Crowther, 77, Dies; Guided Travelers Looking to Get Lost|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/geoff-crowther-77-dead.html|website=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507205309/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/geoff-crowther-77-dead.html|archive-date=7 May 2021|url-status=live}} {{cite web|title=Last Word: Geoff Crowther, Isamu Akasaki, June Newton, Les McKeown|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vjny|publisher=[BBC Radio 4](/source/BBC_Radio_4)|date=30 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430151431/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vjny|archive-date=30 April 2021|url-status=live}} {{cite web|title=Geoff Crowther obituary|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/geoff-crowther-obituary-3nbsnwqv3|website=[The Times](/source/The_Times)|date=13 May 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220104004338/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/geoff-crowther-obituary-3nbsnwqv3|archive-date=4 January 2022|url-status=live}} ==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRbHhsCY1mU Interview] with Ashley Crowther in 2021, in which he talks about his father. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Crowther, Geoff}} Category:1944 births Category:2021 deaths Category:20th-century British travel writers Category:21st-century British travel writers Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool Category:Deaths from dementia in Australia Category:Lonely Planet Category:People from West Yorkshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Geoff Crowther](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Crowther) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Crowther?action=history)). 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